Springs Aesthetics offers neck liposuction for men and women in Colorado Springs, South Denver, Castle Rock and other areas of Colorado. Neck liposuction targets excess fat that gives your neck an aged and uneven appearance. Neck liposuction may be performed in conjunction with a neck lift.
What is Neck Liposuction?
Neck liposuction is a procedure that Dr. Burroughs recommends for removing small pockets of fat on the neck. Neck liposuction can be performed as a standalone procedure to reduce a double chin, or as part of your neck lift. Almost in all cases, however, skin tightening should be performed to avoid worsening or causing skin sagging. This can be done with minimally invasive (no sutures) radiofrequency (NeckTite and Morpheus) skin tightening. Evoke can also tighten the skin following neck liposuction.
How Much Does Neck Liposuction Cost?
Call our office for pricing. The price range for neck rejuvenation of neck tightening, lifting and liposuction procedures varies. Dr. Burroughs uses individualized surgical plans for each patient, so we can provide a more specific cost at the time of your consultation. If you are interested in financing your neck liposuction, we accept CareCredit® and Alphaeon®.
Am I a Candidate for Neck Liposuction?
Losing fat along your neck line is difficult, if not impossible. You may be able to see or feel excess fat on your neck, but the best way to know if neck liposuction is right for you is to meet with Dr. Burroughs for a consultation to learn about your anti-aging solutions for the neck area.
Do I Have to Have General Anesthesia For Liposuction?
No. Dr. Burroughs utilizes a safe, dilute local anesthetic called tumescent that anesthetizes the tissues comfortably. Most patients have oral sedation or can receive IV sedation if they are more nervous or feel they are more pain sensitive.
How is Neck Liposuction Performed?
Neck liposuction is significantly less invasive than surgery. Dr. Burroughs is Board Certified and a Fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. For neck liposuction, he uses a technique that requires several small incisions. The incisions are used for inserting a thin, hollow tube into the fat layer and loosening/suctioning out the extra fat. The incisions are most commonly small enough to not require sutures. All incisions do cause scarring, but the scars that result from neck liposuction are very minimal and usually not seen except upon very close inspection. Most commonly neck liposuction is done in the office operating room under just local anesthesia and oral or IV sedation.
What Happens During Neck Liposuction Recovery?
Neck liposuction recovery can take some time. For the first few days, your neck may have some swelling, tenderness and bruising. Patients typically see a significant reduction in these symptoms after the first week, and mild swelling may persist for several weeks after the procedure. If your neck liposuction is performed as part of a neck lift, recovery will be more extensive.
Are There Other Ways to Remove Neck Fat Without Liposuction?
Yes, there are many. One method is to use radiofrequency energy (Evoke, Morpheus, RFAL NeckTite) whereupon heat causes the fat to melt and then get absorbed by the body. Smaller areas of fat are suitable to energy treatments whereas large amounts of fat do better with liposuction. Another method is to perform direct excision of the fat through as small incision hidden under the chin area. Deoxycholic acid can also be injected into fat to cause removal. Unfortunately, the deoxycholic acid (KYBELLA®) injections take multiple treatments, still result in post treatment swelling, and provides no significant skin tightening. Dr. Burroughs treats many patients that have had unsatisfactory results following deoxycholic acid injections since it can take many treatments to get adequate fat reduction and contouring. These patients often remain unhappy following their fat injections since the skin was tightened and they are left with loose hanging skin or worsened jowl tissues. Fortunately, radiofrequency skin tightening will often correct the laxity without requiring surgical scars.
How Long Will Neck Liposuction Results Last?
Neck liposuction removes fat cells from your neck and jawline, so these fat cells are considered permanently destroyed. You will, however, need to stay diligent about eating right and exercising, as you will still be vulnerable to developing new fat or hypertrophic enlargement of fat cells in the area.
For more than 20 years, Dr. John Burroughs has helped men and women in Colorado Springs, South Denver, Castle Rock and other areas of Colorado, as well as internationally, by providing exceptional care in plastic surgery and eyelid surgery. At his practice, he also offers medical spa treatments that are performed by his aestheticians to complement, aide, and prolong healing. To learn more about neck liposuction, contact us today to schedule a consultation.
NeckTite, Neck Liposuction and MyEllevate™ explained by Dr. Burroughs from Springs Aesthetics
Hey everyone, it’s Dr. John Burroughs at Springs Aesthetics. We’re coming from one of my operating room suites and I wanted to briefly go over Tite and Morpheus. So Tite uses a handpiece that’s hooked to a radio frequency device, which is right here, and it’s basically the most advanced radiofrequency device to tighten skin. And it’s extremely safe because it measures from the outside and it measures temperature from the inside. So this long probe part is the part that goes under your skin, and so basically you move it across the tissues that you’re tightening and it measures and it’ll cut off if you get a temperature surge so you don’t get burn holes through the skin. And concerning issues like that now areas where there’s a fair amount of fat, like here or in someone’s jowls, you can turn up the energy higher and it can actually destroy some of that fat again in a controlled fashion.
So if you want a smoother jaw profile or a little bit more definition to here besides just the tightening of the skin, then it’ll aid in that and help you out quite a bit. Now, the neck type results, you get improvement within a few weeks, but it really starts to quickly improve from two to six months and even out to a year. We advise our patients, everybody’s anatomy is different, but typically I estimate a 40%. Sometimes you can get 45 to 50% improvement depending upon somebody’s skin quality and their aging and what is needing to be done. So that’s nice because that’s all without surgery. So we have Goldie here who does not need any neck elevation. She’s got the nice cervical mental angle there. It’s not drooping down and she doesn’t have a lot of fat Turkey gobble going on right there. If she did have those things, then we can do a little liposuction as we’re moving into doing this with this probe.
And you just basically come from underneath the chin and you suction out that fat, but Goldie doesn’t need that. But pretend Goldie had some sagging kind of Turkey gobble stuff going on. Well, with your neck tight after you have infiltrated the tissues with what we call tumescent anesthesia, which is a really dilute local anesthetic. Basically we use it for liposuction and procedures like this. The skin will be swelled up so that you can pass your probe for the neck, type through those tissues in a very smooth fashion. And usually we do it from three sites, one from right underneath the submental area and a couple either right in front of the ear, just behind it, and that’ll let you get the whole neck area that you’re trying to address. Now, along with that, you can also do Morpheus, which is radio frequency application from the outside with these needles that go out and you can control the depth from a lot to just a little, depending on the situation.
If you’re also trying to destroy fat with this external approach, you can, but it’s going to do more with the neck type, but they can work well together. I kind of think of it like a sandwich where you want to have the bread on the outside and then your good vegetables and meat on the inside. So you’re going to get a nicer result by working from the outside as well as with your neck tight from underneath the skin. And these are done at the same time. Now, one nice thing about neck tight is that it’s a one and done for several years. I’ve had patients go as far as four years. Most of the time I suggest three years, and that’s fantastic. And to get 40% tightening, if not a bit more in some patients without any surgery, no sutures. That is very appealing. And it’s been extremely popular.
We’ve been doing the neck tight for four years here. I was the second in the state to acquire this technology, and it’s just we do ’em every week. It’s just been very popular. On some of my other teaching videos we’ve talked about that we do it on the face and there’s other areas of the body such as bat wings and things like that that you can also do for that. It’s very comfortable. Most patients, once they’re numbed up, they don’t feel anything. They often just lightly sleep while we’re working. Now while they’re getting numbed up, if it’s a bit uncomfortable for some, I’m one of those that I look at a needle and it starts to hurt me. For those that are more sensitive, we have the nitrous oxide and you breathe in eight to 10 times, hold it, and the mixture of the nitrogen oxide and the oxygen is really going to help relax you, and it keeps you relaxed and it disassociate you from the injections and any discomfort for about a good 10 minutes.
And really, once things are numbed up, it’s not uncomfortable. And once the tissues have been infiltrated with that tumescent local anesthetic, usually it lasts for an hour or more. Now you might ask, how does it feel afterwards? Well, you’re wrapped with the garment, so you just feel a little pressure from that, but it really doesn’t hurt. I’ve had the Morpheus done on my forehead and crow’s feet area, and it didn’t hurt at all once we were done. In fact, I just did the laughing gas, the treatment was done, and then I stayed around the office for about 10 or 15 minutes and then I drove home. No big deal. And so this really is an in and out procedure that gives great results. Now, along with that, we often, and quite often, if a patient has a lot of sagging skin where it’s like hanging down like grandpa or grandma, they may need more draped up.
And you can get a nice immediate result doing the my elevate suspension lift. And basically it’s a canopy or a hammock of support underneath the chin and jawline here that’s anchored behind the ears. And it will lift right away and it gives amazing results. So they’re often done together because they give different elements to neck rejuvenation. The elevate will give you an immediate tightening, the neck tight and morpheus build upon that tightening. And they also improves the skin quality externally. And they also help with reducing some of the fat that might be there. And then if you have a lot of fat in that area, you can do the liposuction at the same time and then do your elevate suspension lift. So this has been very popular. It’s great because you come in, you get it done, you go home, you really only have a couple of days where you shouldn’t be getting the area away. You wear a support garment at night for a couple of months just while you’re sleeping. And it gives great results. And a lot of people are scared of surgery. They don’t want surgery, but they want something that actually works and this does. So it’s been very popular. I hope this has been helpful and informative, and thanks for watching.
